Faculty

Founder & core instructor

Teaches: All core courses, satsang, mentorship

Twenty-five years in the yogic and tantric traditions, with deep roots in Kashmir Śaivism and Tamil Śaiva Siddhānta. Trained under primary teacher Mark Whitwell since 2002, with further certifications through ParaYoga with Rod Stryker and the Mattamayura Institute under Christopher Hareesh Wallis. Founder of Rosebud Woman, host of The Rose Woman Podcast, and author of ten books including The Nine Lives of Woman and Reverence: A Guide to Ritual in Modern Life. MBA (Kellogg); doctoral coursework in Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at CIIS. A former venture-backed tech CEO and futurist, she teaches embodied, lineage-rooted tantra as a path of recognition.

Guest faculty — classical tantra & yoga

Teaches: Breath, embodied divinity, the heart of yoga

Yoga teacher and author with more than forty years of experience and founder of The Heart of Yoga. Trained directly under T.K.V. Desikachar and Krishnamacharya, his work centers breath-based personal practice and the unity of breath, body, and life. Author of God and Sex: Now You Get Both and Yoga of Heart: The Healing Power of Intimate Connection, and editor and contributor to Heart of Yoga, Developing a Personal Practice by his teacher T. K. V. Desikachar.

Guest faculty — yoga & breath

Teaches: Breath-centered yoga, intimacy, personal practice

Yoga teacher and writer in the worldwide Heart of Yoga, where she teaches breath-centered yoga and intimacy and led the lineage's transition from a global teacher network into a formal nonprofit foundation. Founder of the independent publisher Silver Snake Press and editor of the online magazine 'the dirt.' Holds an MA in literature (specializing in the mystic poet William Blake) and a BDes (Hons); a former Greenpeace activist who crewed on the Rainbow Warrior III. Based in New Zealand.

Guest faculty — neo-tantra & sacred sexuality

Teaches: Sacred sexuality, somatic integration, emotional release

Tantra educator, healer, and transformational coach with more than two decades of experience, working with leaders and individuals on healing and embodied transformation. PhD in Human Science / Integral Health (CIHS) and a Transformational Touch practitioner since 1996. She blends classical tantric wisdom with modern somatic technique. She is also one of Christine's teachers.

Guest faculty — neo-tantra & sacred sexuality

Teaches: Conscious touch, sacred relationship, sexual practices

Tantra educator, somatic practitioner, and author with more than twenty years across classical and Neo-Tantric traditions. Founder of The Institute of Conscious Sensuality and the Hawaii Tantra Festival, and author of Conscious Sensuality. His work treats the body as a vessel of wisdom and conscious sexuality as a pathway to healing and connection.

Guest faculty — sex therapy & trauma healing

Teaches: Sexual trauma healing, sex-focused psychotherapy, decolonial wellness

Licensed sex and trauma psychotherapist (ABT, ATR-P) practicing between India and the U.S., known publicly as @indiansextherapist. Has worked with more than 5,000 individuals, couples, and organizations on sexual trauma, interpersonal violence, and decolonial approaches to healing, including at the University of Michigan, the Art Institute of Chicago, Rush Medical Center, and the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Author of the bestselling Unashamed: Notes from the Diary of a Sex Therapist (HarperCollins India), winner of Vogue's Best Author Award; her Healing from Sexual Trauma Masterclass won a UN Laadli Award. Teaches at NYU, UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

Guest faculty — sacred feminine

Teaches: Priestess arts, sacred feminine embodiment, ritual

Psychotherapist (MA, MFT), ordained priestess, and founder and Dean of the Priestess Presence School of Sacred Arts & Temple, a global sisterhood of more than 100,000 women. An ordained priestess and focalizer of the 13 Moon Mystery School and co-founder of the Rosa Mystica Mystery School, she initiates and trains women in the Divine Feminine mysteries. Author of The Sacred Call of the Ancient Priestess. Graduate study at CIIS.

Specialty faculty — breathwork

Teaches: Breathwork, Quantum Light Breath, aquatic bodywork

Breathwork innovator and master of True Contact aquatic bodywork (Waterdance, Watsu, aquatic Craniosacral), studying and teaching breath and aquatic bodywork for 33 years and Bhakti Yoga since 1977. Raised in Northern Bavaria, he served as a Hindu priest in an ashram in India for fifteen years and later spent twenty-three years at Harbin Hot Springs. Creator of SomaRasa; carries forward the Quantum Light Breath lineage from Jeru Kabbal, taught with his wife Ki Ki. Based in Hawaiʻi.

Specialty faculty — mantra & kirtan

Teaches: Mantra Immersion drop-in (co-taught with Christine)

Co-teaches the Mantra Immersion series with Christine — live kirtan and mantra practice as a recognition doorway, with a different topic each session.